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SAN ANTONIO — Jump-Start Performance Co. has found in Beacon Hill its new home.

The theater company learned in April that its lease at the Blue Star Arts Complex in Southtown would not be renewed. After looking at about 10 spaces, it has landed at a one-time artist's studio at 710 Fredericksburg Road, and are renting it from artist Rolando Briseño.

Jump-Start plans to announce its new home at a press conference Friday. The company also will announce changes to its programming approach and in its leadership structure.

“We're really happy to be in the neighborhood, because it's a revitalized neighborhood,” said Felice Garcia, the company's technical director, who will be overseeing much of the move into the new space.

Jump-Start has been based at the Blue Star Arts Complex for nearly 20 years. It plans to have its administrative offices moved out completely by Christmas. Its final performance in the space will be “Performance Party,” its annual New Year's show/party/fundraiser, on Jan. 11.

The company has a one-year commitment to the new space, said Erik Bosse, who handles the company's public relations.

“I'm very excited that Jump-Start is moving there,” Briseño said.

The company's new neighbors include a ceramics studio, Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery and the Uptown Studio, which offers dance classes and other arts-oriented activities.

“It's turned into this great art center,” Briseño said.

Stephan Gaeth, who runs the Uptown, said he's already been in touch with Jump-Start members about future collaborations.

“I'm so excited and thrilled,” Gaeth said. “It's like a countdown for everyone in the building until they're here.”

The new space is significantly smaller than Jump-Start's current digs. The Blue Star space is about 7,500 square feet, and the new space is 2,100 square feet. That has prompted some programming changes.

The biggest one is that, aside from a couple of shows that already were in the works, the company won't have a set season for 2014. Instead, they will focus on a series tentatively titled “Jump-Start At Large,” which will take company-created work all over the city.

“Many pieces will be site-specific, nontraditional, flexible, lean and portable,” said S.T. Shimi, who heads the company's education program. The other big change is a shift in leadership structure. Lisa Suárez, who has been the company's producing director since co-founder Steve Bailey left in 2011, has stepped down from that role to focus on her own work as an artist. She will remain a company member.

Among other things, Suárez will be devoting her time to an adoption-themed theater piece. She received a $12,000 National Performance Network grant to develop the work. Jump-Start and theater companies in Denver and San Jose, Calif., have committed to producing the play once she has completed it.

Jump-Start has no plans to name her successor. Instead, Suárez said, the company will have a shared leadership structure.